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Re: guile -s is it necessary?


From: Robert Uhl <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: guile -s is it necessary?
Date: 20 Oct 2002 11:46:40 -0600
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address@hidden (Paul Jarc) writes:
> 
> Ok, I thought of another possible problem.  Suppose a program wants
> to invoke guile to process a script.  If -s is required, then the
> program will use it.  If -s is optional, the programmer will be
> tempted to use the plain "guile $script_name" form, which will be
> buggy if script_name can start with "-".

Granted--but the same problem exists with everyone else.  No sense
being gratuitously incompatible.  And of course the wise programmer
would write "guile -- $script_name" (or whatever).

-- 
Robert Uhl <address@hidden>
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say
to its subjects, `This you may not read, this you must not see, this
you are forbidden to know,' the end result is tyranny and oppression,
no matter how holy the motives.  Mighty little force is needed to
control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount
of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free.  No, not the
rack, not fission bombs, not anything.  You can't conquer a free man;
the most you can do is kill him.               --Robert A.  Heinlein




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